ON, WHAT THEY GOT IN THEIR POCKET. THEIR FEAR IS WHAT RIDERS MIGHT HAVE IN THEIR POCKETS IS A GUN. TONIGHT, ONLY ON 4, JACKSONVILLE BUS DRIVER SPEAKING ABOUT THE RISK THEY TAKE WHILE DOING THEIR JOBS. THEY REACHED OUT TO US IN RESPONSE TO A DEADLY SHOOTING OF A CABIE AND STABBING OF ANOTHER. SCOTT JOHNSON JOINING US WITH THEIR STORY. EVERY NIGHT THEY PULL OUT OF HERE, THEY DO SO, THEY SAY, WITH A LITTLE BIT OF SECURITY ON THEIR MIND. PARTICULARLY AFTER THESE CABIES WERE ATTACKED, ONE KILLED, SECURITY IS SOMETHING THEY FEEL THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT. AFTER THE RECENT ATTACKS ON CAB DRIVERS, NUMBER OF BUS DRIVERS DECIDED THEY NEEDED TO SPEAK OUT. SAYING THEY SEE DANGER, TOO. WITH ME, I HAVE HAD A GUN ON PULLED ON ME IN 2008. I HAD A GUY WALK OUT IN FRONT OF THE BUS WITH A BAT OR A STICK OR SOMETHING AND BUST OUT MY, YOU KNOW, WINDOWS FROM THE BACK DOOR. WITH ME BEING A DRIVER, DRIVING AT NIGHT, THAT WAS SCARY. WHEN THE PASSENGER GOT OFF THE BUS AND WALKED UP TO ME, HE SPIT IN MY FACE. FOR GEORGE BROOKS, THAT HAPPENED JUST LAST WEEK WHEN THE INTOXICATED AND HIGH YOU THINK RULELY PASSENGER WAS KICKED OFF THE BUS. NOT ONLY SPIT IN HIS FACE, THREATENED TO KILL HIM. IT'S EMOTIONAL. VERY EMOTIONAL. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO THAT TO YOU, I MEAN, WHY? I'M JUST DOING MY JOB. THAT'S THE LOWEST THING YOU CAN DO IS TO SPIT IN THEIR FACE. THE EMOTIONAL TOLL THESE DRIVERS CARRY CAN BE HARD. AND SEEING ONE CAB DRIVER MURDERED WHILE ANOTHER IS STABBED HAS THEM ON EDGE. YOU ALWAYS HAVE THAT FEAR, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. IT'S JUST SAD THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT CAB DRIVER, YOU KNOW, IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME THAT PARTICULAR DAY. THE DRIVERS SAY STIESMTION DRIVERS SAY SOMETIMES THEY PUT ON UNIFORMED COPS. BUT THEY SAY UNDERCOVER OFFICERS WOULD BE BETTER BECAUSE THE BAD PASSENGER BEHAVE UNTIL THE COPS ARE GONE. THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH JTA, THEY WANT THE PUBLIC TO BE AWARE OF SECURITY CONCERNS. JTA SENT ME A STATEMENT, OPERATING AN EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE BUS SYSTEM IS OUR MISSION. SAFETY OF OUR PASSENGERS AND BUS OPERATORS IS ALWAYS OUR NO. 1 PRIORITY. OUR BUSES ARE EQUIPPED WITH ON-BOARD SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS. WE TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF OUR PASSENGERS AND OPERATORS. LIVE DOWNTOWN, SCOTT JOHNSON. CAB DRIVER'S JOBS ARE SO DANGEROUS BECAUSE THEY TYPICALLY WORK ALONE, OSHA REPORTS. THEY ALWAYS CARRY AROUND CASH. BUT DOES A BUS DRIVER HAPPEN TO SAY IF IT IS SIMILAR FOR THEM IN THAT RESPECT? WELL, THAT WAS THE ONE DIFFERENCE I HEARD FROM BUS DRIVERS, IS THEY DON'T DEAL WITH THE CASH. SO THEY ARE NOT A TARGET FOR ROBBERY, PER SE. BUT WITH SO MANY MORE PASSENGERS THEY DEAL WITH, THEY ARE GOING TO DEAL WITH THE UNRULY. BACK TO YOU.

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After two cab drivers were attacked in the last week — one was killed — some Jacksonville bus drivers decided to speak out about how dangerous their jobs are, too.

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Channel 4's Scott Johnson spoke with a group of bus drivers about the dangers they said they face every day.

They said they want the public to know that drivers never know if the next person they pick up could be dangerous.

Bus driver George Brooks said just last week an apparently intoxicated and unruly passenger was kicked off the bus and then walked up to Brooks, spit in his face and threatened to kill him.

“It's emotional, very emotional, for somebody to do that to you,” Brooks said. “I mean, why? I'm just doing my job. That's the lowest thing you can do to somebody is spit in their face.”

Bus driver Dwayne Russell said he had a gun pulled on him in 2008, and driver Shawn Bradley said a man walked in front of her bus one night with some sort of bat or stick and busted the windows on the back door.

Driving a bus can carry an emotional toll, the drivers said, and seeing that one cab driver was murdered and another was stabbed in less than a week has the bus drivers on edge.

Bradley said the people who attacked the cab drivers could easily get on a bus and the driver would have no idea who they were.

“You always have that fear of what's going to happen next,” Russell said. “It's just sad that what happened to that cab driver, it could've been me that particular day."

The drivers said sometimes uniformed cops are put on bus routes in high crime areas, but they think a better solution would be to have undercover cops on buses. Otherwise, they said, the bad passengers behave until the cops are gone.

The drivers said they have no complaints with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority as an employer and understand it's hard to control an environment when dealing with the public.

JTA released this statement about the drivers' concerns, “Operating an efficient and effective bus system is our mission, but the safety of our passengers and our bus operators is always our No. 1 priority. Our buses are equipped with on-board surveillance cameras. We will take every precaution to ensure the safety of our operators.”

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